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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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Waardenburg syndrome: A rare case
Shivlal M Rawlani1, Roshani Ramtake2, Ajab Dhabarde2, Sudhir S Rawlani3
1 Departments of Dentistry, VSPM Dental College and Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
2 Ophthalmology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
3 Department of Public Health Dentistry, VSPM Dental College and Hospital, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Shivlal M Rawlani
Department of Dentistry, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ojo.OJO_51_2014
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Waardenburg Syndrome is a rare disorder of neural crest cell development. It is genetically inherited. Varying in prevalence from 1:42000 to 1:50,000, it compromises approximately 2-5% of congenital deaf children. The syndrome is not expressed in its complete form, in about 20% cases, which adds for its heterogenisity . Even among people affected in the same family,the features do vary. Unilateral heterochromia that manifests as lighter pigmentation of one iris is associated with Waardenburg syndrome and Parry-Romberg syndrome and less commonly with Hirschsprung disease. A case of ten yrs. old boy with a typical facial profile and hearing loss is reported.
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